Nature Annular Magnitude 0.9759 Max. width of band 95 km (59 mi) Start date January 16, 2056 | Gamma 0.4199 Duration 172 sec (2 m 52 s) Greatest eclipse 22:16:45 | |
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An annular solar eclipse will occur on January 16, 2056. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide.
Solar eclipses 2054-2058
Each member in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.
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Solar eclipse of January 16, 2056 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA